The Small Brave Act Of Cooperating Brings Quiet Joy

Scientists have discovered
that the small brave act of cooperating with another person
makes the brain light up with quiet joy.
~ New York Times, July 23, 2002
WW #7 2009

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Photo ID: 023, FW07, 20

Jim & Friend At Pass Dressed For Cold

Scientists have discovered
that the small brave act of cooperating with another person
makes the brain light up with quiet joy.
~ New York Times, July 23, 2002
WW #7 2009

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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The Desert Is Landscape Gone Naked

The desert is landscape gone naked…
~ Patricia Swain
Wilderness Point an essay in Wild Nevada

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Photo ID: 313, FW07, 21

Pyramid Mountain Peaks Graced In Snow

The desert is landscape gone naked…
~ Patricia Swain
Wilderness Point an essay in Wild Nevada

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Learning The Hard Way

Anyone who teaches
that solo experience is not the best teacher
is not the best teacher.

Solo experience
now and then teaches the hard way,
but the hard way is the unforgettable way.
~ David James Duncan in My Story As Told By Water
WW #1 2009

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Jim Ambles Along Vast Flood Plain

Anyone who teaches
that solo experience is not the best teacher
is not the best teacher.

Solo experience
now and then teaches the hard way,
but the hard way is the unforgettable way.
~ David James Duncan in My Story As Told By Water
WW #1 2009

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Open The Doors Of Perception

Educators have not only an opportunity
but an obligation to open the ‘doors of perception’ for all students.
The enduring purpose of education
is to provide students with a perception
of the outer reaches of their talents and possibilities
and, ideally, to give them a reason to continue to learn
and contribute to their society for all of their lives.
~ Bernice Bleedorn

Education Is Everybody's
Business: A Wake-Up Call To Advocates Of Educational Change

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Photo ID: 314, FW07, 23

Calm Water And Reflected Clouds

Educators have not only an opportunity
but an obligation to open the ‘doors of perception’ for all students.
The enduring purpose of education
is to provide students with a perception
of the outer reaches of their talents and possibilities
and, ideally, to give them a reason to continue to learn
and contribute to their society for all of their lives.
~ Bernice Bleedorn 

Education Is Everybody's
Business: A Wake-Up Call To Advocates Of Educational Change

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You Can't Teach What You Don't Know

You can't no more teach
what you don't know,
than come back from where you ain't been.
~ Mark Twain

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Photo ID: 011, FW07, 24 

River Rapids & Moving Clouds

You can't no more teach
what you don't know,
than come back from where you ain't been.
~ Mark Twain

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Lighting A Fire With Education

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
~ W. B. Yeats

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Photo ID: 315, FW07, 25

Jim Fords Wide Shallow River

Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
~ W. B. Yeats

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 315, FW07, 25

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Eagle's World Wisdom

In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.
~ Lame Deer, Minnicoujou

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Photo ID: 012, FW07, 26

Snow Graced Mountain Cliff

In an eagle there is all the wisdom of the world.
~ Lame Deer, Minnicoujou

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Egoism Wrapped In Idealism

Nothing is ever quite so saleable
as egoism wrapped in idealism.
~ James Luther Adams

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Photo ID: 316, FW07, 27

River Bends For Mountain

Nothing is ever quite so saleable
as egoism wrapped in idealism.
~ James Luther Adams

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Not To Burden Others With Insufficiency

… he who strives to be of use in this world
soon burdens the people with his own insufficiency.
~ Lao Tzu

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Photo ID: 013, FW07, 28

Flower Circles On River Bed

… he who strives to be of use in this world
soon burdens the people with his own insufficiency.
~ Lao Tzu

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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All Is Being Purified

This life, therefore, is not righteousness,
but growth in righteousness;
not health, but healing; not being, but becoming;
not rest, but exercise.

We are not yet what we shall be,
but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished, but
it is going on.

This is not the end, but it is the road.
All does not yet gleam in glory, but
all is being purified.
~ Martin Luther

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Photo ID: 317, FW07, 29

Calm Water With Perfect Mountain Cloud Reflection

This life, therefore, is not righteousness,
but growth in righteousness;
not health, but healing; not being, but becoming;
not rest, but exercise.

We are not yet what we shall be,
but we are growing toward it.
The process is not yet finished, but
it is going on.

This is not the end, but it is the road.
All does not yet gleam in glory, but
all is being purified.
~ Martin Luther

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Your Mission In Life

Your mission in life is

where your deep joy

and the world's deep hunger meet.

~ Richard Nelson Bolles

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Photo ID: 014, FW07, 30

Sunny Day River With Snow Capped Mountains

Your mission in life is
where your deep joy
and the world's deep hunger meet.
~ Richard Nelson Bolles

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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We Are Not Broken

We are not broken, we are just unfinished.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen

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Photo ID: 318, FW07, 31

Sunlit Mountain Peaks

We are not broken, we are just unfinished.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Connect To One's Core

When one is a stranger to oneself,
then one is estranged from others…
Only when one is connected to one’s core
is one truly connected to others.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Photo ID: 015, FW07, 32

River Meanders Through Alpine Fir Forest

When one is a stranger to oneself,
then one is estranged from others…
Only when one is connected to one’s core
is one truly connected to others.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Discovering What Is True

This time is about uncovering and discovering what is true….
The big old spruce that stand behind the cabin
reminds me that both of us grow by thrusting our roots
into the darkness as well as our branches into the light.
~ Dawna Markova
WW#1 2007

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Photo ID: 320, FW07, 33

Fresh Snow Across Many Mountains

This time is about uncovering and discovering what is true….
The big old spruce that stand behind the cabin
reminds me that both of us grow by thrusting our roots
into the darkness as well as our branches into the light.
~ Dawna Markova
WW#1 2007

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 320, FW07, 33

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Coming Home To Myself

…I need to come home to myself.
It’s not really how far I move
to find my own wisdom that matters,
but it’s crucially important
that I take myself along on the journey.
~ Dawna Markova

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Photo ID: 016, FW07, 34

Jim At A Pass Between Rock Mountains

…I need to come home to myself.
It’s not really how far I move
to find my own wisdom that matters,
but it’s crucially important
that I take myself along on the journey.
~ Dawna Markova

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Something Brushed Across My Mind

Was something brushed across my mind
That no one on earth will ever find?
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in positions to look too close.
~ from Robert Frost’s A Passing Glimpse

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Photo ID: 319, FW07, 35

Vast Green Glacial Meadow

Was something brushed across my mind
That no one on earth will ever find?
Heaven gives its glimpses only to those
Not in positions to look too close.
~ from Robert Frost’s A Passing Glimpse

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Changing Directions

If we don’t change direction,
we are likely to end up
exactly where we’re headed.
~ Old Chinese Proverb
WW#2 2007

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Photo ID: 017, FW07, 36

Jagged Mountain Peaks Above Flood Plain

If we don’t change direction,
we are likely to end up
exactly where we’re headed.
~ Old Chinese Proverb
WW#2 2007

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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How We Eat

How we eat determines, to a considerable extent,
how the world is used.
~ Wendell Berry

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Photo ID: 321, FW07, 37

Sunny Forested River Bend

How we eat determines, to a considerable extent,
how the world is used.
~ Wendell Berry

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Liberty And Independence

What constitutes the bulwark
of our own liberty and independence?

It is not our crowning battlements,
our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy.
These are not our reliance against tyranny.
All of these may be turned against us
without making us weaker for the struggle.

Our reliance is in the spirit which prized liberty
as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.

Destroy this spirit
and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage
and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Accustom to trample on the rights of others
and you have lost the genius of your own independence
and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant
who rises among you.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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Photo ID: 018, FW07, 38

Jim Fords River Pushing Floating Pack

What constitutes the bulwark
of our own liberty and independence?

It is not our crowning battlements,
our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy.
These are not our reliance against tyranny.
All of these may be turned against us
without making us weaker for the struggle.

Our reliance is in the spirit which prized liberty
as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere.

Destroy this spirit
and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors.
Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage
and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Accustom to trample on the rights of others
and you have lost the genius of your own independence
and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant
who rises among you.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Freedom Is Indivisible

Freedom is indivisible;
the chains on any one of my people
were the chains on all of them,
the chains on all of them,
were the chains on me.
~ Nelson Mandela

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Photo ID: 322, FW07, 39

Balanced Rock Looking Up Mountain Valley

Freedom is indivisible;
the chains on any one of my people
were the chains on all of them,
the chains on all of them,
were the chains on me.
~ Nelson Mandela

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Freedom Is A Relative Thing

Freedom is a relative thing.
It's often determined more by
what you allow yourself to do
than what others allow.
~ Brian Austin Whitney

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Photo ID: 019, FW07, 40

Dark Clouds Feature Sunlit Mountain Tops

Freedom is a relative thing.
It's often determined more by
what you allow yourself to do
than what others allow.
~ Brian Austin Whitney

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 019, FW07, 40

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Ideas Are Only Dangerous...

Ideas are only dangerous
to those who profit from ignorance.
~ Brian Austin Whitney

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Photo ID: 323, FW07, 41

Sunlit Mountain With Their Forest And Flood Plain

Ideas are only dangerous
to those who profit from ignorance.
~ Brian Austin Whitney

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 323, FW07, 41

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Friends

Your friends are the ones
who will stand beside you
when they would rather be anywhere else.
~ Unknown

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Photo ID: 020, FW07, 42

Careful Step Along Rushing Rapids

Your friends are the ones
who will stand beside you
when they would rather be anywhere else.
~ Unknown

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Gold Mine

Definition of a gold mine:
hole in the ground, owned by a liar.
~ Mark Twain

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Photo ID: 324, FW07, 43

Mountain Stream Beauty

Definition of a gold mine:
hole in the ground, owned by a liar.
~ Mark Twain

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 324, FW07, 43

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Heaven

It floats among us like a cloud
and is the realest thing we know
and the least to be captured,
the least to be possessed by anybody for themself.
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which you cannot see
among the crumbs of earth where it lies.
It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
~ Wendell Berry in Jayber Crow

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Photo ID: 021, FW07, 44

Wide Mountain Valley Flood Plain

It floats among us like a cloud
and is the realest thing we know
and the least to be captured,
the least to be possessed by anybody for themself.
It is like a grain of mustard seed,
which you cannot see
among the crumbs of earth where it lies.
It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.
~ Wendell Berry in Jayber Crow

Song-Film: Heart Of This Wild Land
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Photo ID: 021, FW07, 44

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